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Subject: June Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 10:46:26 -0500 (CDT)
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Jul 1998 Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi [Tolstoy #5][nkrnnxxx.xxx]1399
This file was never completed, and should have been released as version 09 as
it is now named, and the completed file [now spellchecked] is version 10. We
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Apr 1999 The Survivors of the Chancellor, by Jules Verne #8[tsotcxxa.xxx]1698
This is from a different source than our previous edition [tsotcxxx.xxx]1652
[My apologies, I thought I posted this a long time ago, but it never made it]
****Requests for Assistance from our Volunteers****
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We need a pre-1923 edition of the Velveteen Rabbit,
or one that SAYS in it that it is a reprint of one.
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Below is a sample from a German play by Goethe, Iphigenie
auf Taurus. This material in its entirety will be
available shortly and will need a German-speaking
proofreader. I am requesting a volunteer to take on the
challenge and assist in the final phase of this project.
Kindly contact me (globaltraveler5565@yahoo.com) if you can
offer aid. Thanks! Mike Pullen
F|nfter Aufzug.
Erster Auftritt.
Thoas. Arkas.
Arkas.
Verwirrt mu_ ich gestehn, da_ ich nicht wei_,
Wohin ich meinen Argwohn richten soll.
Sind's die Gefangnen, die auf ihre Flucht
Verstohlen sinnen? Ist's die Priesterin,
Die ihnen hilft? Es mehrt sich das Ger|cht:
Das Schiff, das diese beiden hergebracht,
Sei irgend noch in einer Bucht versteckt.
Und jenes Mannes Wahnsinn, diese Weihe,
Der heil'ge Vorwand dieser Zvgrung, rufen
Den Argwohn lauter und die Vorsicht auf.
Thoas.
Es komme schnell die Priesterin herbei!
Dann geht, durchsucht das Ufer scharf und schnell
****And here are our 36 Etexts for January, 2000, and a few for February****
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****
Jan 2000 Iphigenie auf Tauris, Johann von Goethe[#4] German[iphgnxxx.xxx]2054
This is labelled as version iphgn09.txt and .zip, as we need some practice.
Jan 2000 The American Republic, by O. A. Brownson [amrepxxx.xxx]2053
Jan 2000 Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business, Defoe#8[ebdybxxx.xxx]2052
Jan 2000 Dickory Cronke, by Daniel Defoe [Daniel Defoe #7][dckcrxxx.xxx]2051
Jan 2000 Old John Brown, by Walter Hawkins [ojbrnxxx.xxx]2050
Jan 2000 Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion, by Wm Hazlitt[nwpygxxx.xxx]2049
Jan 2000 The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by W. Irving #5[sbogcxxx.xxx]2048
Jan 2000 Stories of Modern French Novels: Scribners Ed. [sbmfaxxx.xxx]2047
This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library
Contains:
Victor Cherbuliez
Count Kostia
Paul Bourget
Andre Cornelis
Anonymous
The Last of the Costellos
Lady Betty's Indiscretion
Jan 2000 Clotel; or, The President's Daughter, by Wm. Brown[clotlxxa.xxx]2046
Also see our previous release, based on a separate source edition: ^
Apr 1995 Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine by Wm Wells Brown[clotlxxx.xxx] 241
Jan 2000 My Memories of Eighty Years, by Chauncey M. Depew [depewxxx.xxx]2045
Jan 2000 The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams [eduhaxxx.xxx]2044
Jan 2000 The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams[HTML][eduhaxxh.xxx]2044
Jan 2000 Stories by Modern American Authors: Scribners Ed.[sbmaaxxx.xxx]2043
This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library
Contains:
F. MARION CRAWFORD
By the Waters of Paradise
MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
The Shadows on the Wall
MELVILLE D. POST
The Corpus Delicti
AMBROSE BIERCE
An Heiress from Redhorse
The Man and the Snake
EDGAR ALLAN POE
The Oblong Box
The Gold-Bug
WASHINGTON IRVING
Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams
Adventure of the Black Fisherman
CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN
Wieland's Madness
FITZJAMES O'BRIEN
The Golden Ingot
My Wife's Tempter
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The Minister's Black Veil
ANONYMOUS
Horror: A True Tale
Jan 2000 Something New, by P.G. Wodehouse [P.G.Wodehouse#2][smtnwxxx.xxx]2042
Jan 2000 The House of the Wolf, by Stanley Weyman[Weyman#3][hwolfxxx.xxx]2041
Jan 2000 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, de Quincey [opiumxxx.xxx]2040
Jan 2000 Evangeline, by Henry W. Longfellow [Longfellow #6][vnglnxxx.xxx]2039
Jan 2000 Evangeline, by Henry W. Longfellow [With Accents] [vnglnxxi.xxx]2039
Also see:
Jun 1998 The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [cphwlxxx.xxx]1365
[A different version of Evangeline is in this collection]
Jan 2000 Stories by Modern English Authors: Scribners Ed. [sbmeaxxx.xxx]2038
This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library
Contains:
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-)
My Own True Ghost Story
The Sending of Dana Da
In the House of Suddhoo
His Wedded Wife
A. CONAN DOYLE (1859-)
A Case of Identity
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
EGERTON CASTLE (1858-)
The Baron's Quarry
STANLEY J. WEYMAN (1855-)
The Fowl in the Pot
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-94)
The Pavilion on the Links
WILKIE COLLINS (1824-89)
The Dream Woman
ANONYMOUS
The Lost Duchess
The Minor Canon
The Pipe
The Puzzle
The Great Valdez Sapphire
Jan 2000 Journey Scotland's Western Isles, Saumeul Johnson [jwsctxxx.xxx]2038
[A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland [Johnson #3]]
Jan 2000 Novel Notes, by Jerome K. Jerome[JeromeKJerome#19][nvlntxxx.xxx]2037
Jan 2000 Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon, by Samuel Baker[8yearxxx.xxx]2036
Jan 2000 Stories by English Authors: Orient, Scribners Ed.[sbeaoxxx.xxx]2035
Contains:
The Man Who Would Be King, Rudyard Kipling
Tajima, Miss Mitford
A Chinces Girl Graduate, R. K. Douglas
The Revenge of Her Race, Mary Beaumont
King Billy of Ballarat, Morley Roberts
Thy Heart's Desire, Netta Syrett
Jan 2000 Waverley, by Walter Scott [Walter Scott #10][wvrlyxxx.xxx]2034
Jan 2000 The Unknown Guest, by Maurice Maeterlinck [ungstxxx.xxx]2033
Jan 2000 Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard/Eleanor Farjeon[mpnaoxxx.xxx]2032
Jan 2000 Lock and Key Library, Magic & Real Detectives [#2][2lckyxxx.xxx]2031
This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library
Stories by several authors:
P. H. WOODWARD^M
Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department
An Erring Shepherd
An Aspirant for Congress
The Fortune of Seth Savage
A Wish Unexpectedly Gratified
An Old Game Revived
A Formidable Weapon
ANDREW LANG
Saint-Germain the Deathless
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Legend
The Valet's History
The Valet's Master
Original Papers in the Case of Roux De Marsilly
M. ROBERT-HOUDIN [After whom Harry Houdini named himself]
A Conjurer's Confessions
Self-Training
"Second Sight"
The Magician Who Became an Ambassador
Facing the Arab's Pistol
DAVID P. ABBOTT
Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled
A Doctor of the Occult
How the Tricks Succeeded
The Name of the Dead
Mind Reading in Public
Some Famous Exposures
HEREWARD CARRINGTON
More Tricks of "Spiritualism"
"Matter through Matter"
Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology
ANONYMOUS
How Spirits Materialize
Jan 2000 Legends of Babylon and Egypt, by Leonard W. King [behebxxx.xxx]2030
[Etext 2030 contains extended ASCII characters and _I_ did not name the file]
Jan 2000 Lahoma, by John Breckinridge Ellis [lahomxxx.xxx]2029
Jan 2000 The Yellow Claw, by Sax Rohmer [Sax Rohmer #5][yclawxxx.xxx]2028
Jan 2000 Tartuffe, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere [#1] [trtffxxx.xxx]2027
Jan 2000 The Coming Conquest of England, by August Niemann [tccoexxx.xxx]2026
Jan 2000 My Lady Caprice, by Jeffrey Farnol [lcprcxxx.xxx]2025
Jan 2000 Diary of a Pilgrimage, by Jerome K. Jerome[JKJ#17][dypgmxxx.xxx]2024
Jan 2000 Malvina of Brittany, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ #16][mlvbtxxx.xxx]2023
Contains:
Malvina of Brittany
The Street of the Blank Wall
His Evening Out
The Lesson
Sylvia of the Letters
The Fawn Gloves
Jan 2000 Angling Sketches, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #21][angskxxx.xxx]2022
Jan 2000 Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #24][nstrmxxx.xxx]2021
Jan 2000 Tarzan the Terrible, by Edgar R. Burroughs[TARZ#8][tzntrxxx.xxx]2020
Jan 2000 The Bat, by M. R. Rinehart & Avery Hopwood [MRR13][thbatxxx.xxx]2019
And a few for February, 2000
Feb 2000 All For Love, by John Dryden [John Dryden #1][al4lvxxx.xxx]2062
Feb 2000 Not Ready Yet [ xxx.xxx]2061
Feb 2000 Not Ready Yet [ xxx.xxx]2060
Feb 2000 The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr[lsokcxxx.xxx]2059
Feb 2000 Messer Marco Polo, by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne [mpoloxxx.xxx]2058
Feb 2000 The Last of the Plainsmen, by Zane Grey [Grey #10][plnsmxxx.xxx]2057
Feb 2000 Life of William Carey, by George Smith [wmcryxxx.xxx]2056
Feb 2000 Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana [2yb4mxxx.xxx]2055
And from Edupage, etc. [Now two Newsletters, I will create
a new blurb for each of them. . .Michael]
PAPER GOES ELECTRIC
Researchers at Xerox and at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology have recently developed electronic ink and electronic
paper, which some analysts say may make traditional paper
obsolete. Electronic paper is easier on the eyes than a computer
screen because it has a higher contrast, and it can display
millions of different images in the same space. For example,
analysts say that a paper newspaper could easily fit onto
electronic paper, and information could be changed every morning
by deleting yesterday's news and downloading the current news
with no loss of print quality. Some former MIT students have
already created a company called E Ink, which has developed
electronic ink and paper products and is testing the prototypes
commercially. The company recently hung an electronic sign in a
Boston department store, where the display is controlled by a
computer from within the store's main office. These electronic
posters can have text changed instantaneously.
(New Scientist 05/15/99)
DISPUTES AND UNKNOWNS OF ELECTRONIC RIGHTS ROIL THE BOOK INDUSTRY
For all the hype surrounding electronic books, the fast-moving
industry is having trouble convincing the slow-moving book
industry to get on board. The Authors' Guild mailed warnings to
its 7,500 members last month criticizing current e-book contracts
as bad deals, saying the distribution fees for e-book
manufacturers are payment schemes that would deny publishers and
authors their rewards in the information age. Other literary
guilds are also advising authors to stay away from e-book
agreements unless they promise to revise the deals when e-books
become more popular. The book industry says it wants to see the
market grow, but wants the terms to be fair. Current e-book
deals give authors a share of just 4 percent of the book's list
price, compared to 15 percent for traditional book deals.
(New York Times 05/10/99)
COURT SAYS TEMPS DESERVE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
A federal court of appeals has ruled that about 10,000 temporary workers at
Microsoft are entitled to take part in the discounted stock-option plan the
company offers to regular employees. Industry analyst Rob Enderle says,
"This is a broad decision, and it applies to all businesses. If you've got
a temp worker putting in 20-plus hours a week, you better start considering
him or her like you would a part-time worker" -- and provide employee
benefits. The ruling indicated that a temporary worker can be considered a
"common-law employee" if the person's work was controlled not by the
placement agency but by the company for which the work was being done.
Microsoft plans to appeal. (New York Times 14 May 99)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/biztech/articles/14soft.html
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WANTS ISPs TO SPY
The European Parliament last Friday passed the Lawful Interception of
Communications council resolution on new technologies -- known as Enfopol --
which requires Internet service providers and telephone companies to provide
law-enforcement agencies with full-time, real-time access to Internet
transmissions, even those traversing along multiple networks. In addition,
wireless communications providers are required to provide geographical
location information on cell phone users, along with decoding of messages,
if encryption is provided as part of the service. The European Internet
Service Providers' Association has denounced the resolution. "Anyone who's
got half a clue about the Internet can easily see the Enfopol proposals are
unfeasible," says the chairman of U.K. ISP Linx. "The problem is it's a
bunch of law-enforcement people who have cooked this up in a vacuum without
public consultation." He also expressed concerns that the stringent
requirements would prompt Internet users from other countries to route
around Europe, damaging the European telecom industry's revenue. (TechWeb
14 May 99) http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990513S0009
PRIVACY PROPOSAL
A Clinton Administration proposal to protect individual financial and
medical records includes a request for more than $5 million to fund an
increase in online surveillance and to train law enforcement officials in
ways to combat security fraud. Congressman Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) explained
the problem to his colleagues by writing: "Do you believe your banking
transaction experiences are private? You may be surprised to learn that
with certain exceptions, financial institutions may legally share all of
the information about you and your bank account activity with affiliated
businesses or even third parties." (Washington Post 4 May 99)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/daily/may99/privacy4.htm
PC SALES UP, PROFITS DOWN
Unit sales of PCs rose 21% in April, but revenue declined 2.2% as prices
fell and sales of low-cost PCs surged. The average sales price of a PC was
$928, according to PC Data Corp. Sales of sub-$1,000 computers accounted
for 71% of all retail sales. (Bloomberg News/Los Angeles Times 20 May 99)
http://www.latimes.com/home/business/t000045210.html
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